Documentation Archives
Here you may access manuals covering text-based DDMS Version 4 Distribution Professional™ software and the text-based PGD/OS operating system.
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Table of Contents
- What's new in Versions 3 & 4, which supplements the Standard Books, and includes chapters on Customers, Inventory, Order Entry, General Ledger, Accounting, Purchasing, Operational Procedures, Point of Sale, Furniture, Serialized, and an Appendix of System Files.
- Standard
Books
- Book I: Customers, Vendors, and Salespersons
- Book II: Inventory
- Book III: Order Entry
- Book IV: Accounts Receivable
- Book V: Purchasing and Communications
- Book VI: The Flow of Orders through the DDMS System
- Book VII: System Maintenance and Utilities
- Book VIII: Sales and Commissions
- Book IX: Common Reports
- Book X: Hardware Manual
- Book XI: Quick Reference Manual
- Optional Books
- Handouts
from User's Meetings
- The Automated Short-Buy: A Supplement
- DDMS Cool Tools
- Accounts Payable Flow
- Posting Payables from Purchase Orders
- DDMS Does Windows: an Introduction
- Networking Concepts
- DDMS Sample Furniture Reports
- National Drop Ship
- Stock Versus Stockless: Considerations
- Tandberg Tape Drives
- Warehouse Efficiencies
- Proc File Basics
- The Efficiencies of Using Proc Files
- Troubleshooting Your DDMS PGD/OS System
- Newsletters, including KeyOPs and Distributed Data from 1996 through 1999 (See also our DDMS Publications page.